About the Artwork
Madonna and Child with an Adoring Figure
between 1715 and 1718
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682-1754
Italian
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 74 × 57 1/2 inches (187.9 × 146.1 cm) Framed: 88 1/2 × 72 3/4 × 4 1/4 inches (224.8 × 184.8 × 10.8 cm)
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European Painting
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford
38.56
Public Domain
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Provenance
painted for Scuola dell'Angelo Custode [never installed, remained with artist] (Venice, Italy)
the artist, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta [1682-1754]
ca. 1718, purchased by Zaccaria Sagredo [d. 1729] (Venice, Italy)
Gherardo Sagredo [d. 1738] (Venice, Italy)
by descent to his widow, Cecilia Grimani-Calergi [d. 1762] (Venice, Italy)
possibly Bartolomeo Vitturi
by 1935, private collection (Bologna, Italy)
Prof. D. Botto (Milan, Italy)
by October 1938, Mario Crespi (Milan, Italy)
1938, (Jacob Heimann, Milan, Italy)
1938, purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford
1938-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Morassi, Antonio. "More About the Young Tiepolo." Burlington Magazine 67, no. 391 (October 1935): 143–151, pp. 144–145, pl. 1B (ill.) [as by G.B. Tiepolo]
Fiocco, Guiseppe. "An Early work by Giambattista Tiepolo." Art in America 26, no. 4 (October 1938): 146–157, p. 151 [as a fragment of "Madonna with the Custrole [sic] Angel" by Giambattista Tiepolo]
"News of Art." New York Times 88, no. 29,508 (November 8, 1938): 28, p. 28.
Richardson, E.P. "A Madonna and Child with an Adoring Figure by Tiepolo." Bulletin of the DIA 18, no. 3 (1938): pp. 2-6 (ill.).
McCall, George Henry, ed. Masterpieces of Art: European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800. Exh. cat., World's Fair. New York, 1939, p. 180, no. 370, pl. 36. [as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.]
Porcella, A. "Il Tiepolo e i Tiepoleschi," L'Arte, anno 44 (December 1941): p. 176 (fig. 2). [attributed to Piazzetta.]
Pallucchini, R. "Unbekannte Werke Piazzettas." Pantheon 29 (1942): pp. 49-55.
Pallucchini, R. Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Rome, 1942, p. 10 (fig. 9).
Arslan, E. "Nota Breve sul Piazzetta." Le Arti (April-July 1943): no. xxi, p. 206-212. [attributed. to Piazzetta.]
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 132, no. 766. [attributed to G.B. Tiepolo, ca. 1715-1722.]
Pallucchini, R. "Opere Tarde di Piazzetta." Arte Veneta 1, no. 2 (April-June, 1947): pp. 108-116, p. 110.
Procacci, U. "Opere del Piazzetta a Cortona." Arte Veneta 1, no. 2 (April-June 1947): pp. 117-131.
Richardson, E.P. "Tiepolo, Madonna and Child with Adoring Figure." In Favorite Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1948, pp. 45–49, no. VIII, pl. VIII (ill.). [as by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo]
Richardson, E.P. Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, p. 82 (ill.). [as by G.B. Tiepolo.]
Brunetti, M. "Un Eccezionale Collegio Peritale: Piazzetta, Tiepolo, Longhi." Arte Veneta 5 (1951): pp. 158-160, p. 159, footnote 2.
Venice, 1700-1800: An Exhibition of Venice and the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and John Herron Art Museum. Detroit and Indianapolis, 1952, pp. 42-44, cat. 51.
Detroit Institute of Arts Paintings and Sculpture Illustrated. Detroit, 1953, p. 80.
Myers, B.S., ed. Encyclopedia of Painting. New York, 1955, p. 387, pl. 156.
Pallucchini, R. Piazzetta. Milan, 1956, pp. 16-18, pl. 17.
Haskell, Francis and Michael Levey. "Art Exhibitions in 18th Century Venice." Arte Veneta XII (1958): pp. 179-184.
Richardson, E.P. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1960, p. 98 (ill.).
Pallucchini, R. La Pittura Veneziana del Settecento. Venice, 1960, pp. 63-66 (fig. 149).
Richardson, E.P. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 105.
Levine, Milton J., ed. Masters of the Loaded Brush: Oil Sketches from Rubens to Tiepolo. New York, 1967, pp. 53-55 (fig. 41).
Die Gemaldegalerie der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Kassel. Kassel, 1969, p. 92.
Haskell, F. Patrons and Painters. New York, 1971, pp. 262-267.
Cummings, F. and C. Elam, eds. Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 114.
Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 163 (as fragment), p. 579.
Cummings, F., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 146, cat. 119 (ill.).
Knox, G. "Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and the Scuola dell'Angelo Custode in Venice." Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 25 (1979): pp. 24-31 (ill.).
Lehmann, J.M., ed. Italienische, französische und spanische Gemälde des 16. bis 18. Fridingen, 1980, p. 198
Jones, Leslie. The Paintings of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 3 vols. Ph.D. diss., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, vol. I, pp. 11, 27 (footnotes 33 and 39), 55-62, 72 (footnotes 32, 34-6), 74, 94, 133-4, 147; vol. II, pp. 33, 54, 57-64 (cat. entry for painting), 78-9 (cat. entry for Kassel modello), 85-6 (cat. entry for LACMA modello/bozzetto), 253-255 (cat. entry for pendant to Kassel modello, the Death of St. Joseph, which Jones attributes to Francesco Capella); vol. III, p. 5 (figs. 11 and 12 both of DIA painting), 6 (figs. 13-15 of Kassel, LACMA, and print after LACMA), 64 (fig. 145, pendant to Kassel's bozzetto).
Pallucchini, R. and A. Mariuz. "L'Opera Completa del Piazzetta." Classici dell'Arte, no. 108 (1982): pp. 5-6, 80 (cat. 22), 99 (in relation to Cortona altarpiece) (ill.), color pl. VII.
Knox, George. A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints and Books. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington D.C., 1983, pp. 82-83.
Barcham, William L. The Religious Paintings of Giambattista Tiepolo: Piety and Tradition in Eighteenth-century Venice. Oxford, 1989, p. 53.
Knox, G. Giambattista Piazzetta 1682-1754. Oxford, 1992, pp. 31, 64, 74-83, 86, 161, 197, pl. 63.
Binion, Alice. "The Piazzetta Paradox." The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, eds. Jane Martineau and Andrew Robison. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts and National Gallery. London and Washington, D.C., 1994, p. 144.
Bergamini, Giuseppe, ed. Giambattista Tiepolo, Forme e Colori, La Pittura del Settecento in Friuli. Milan, 1996, p. 194.
De Grazia, D. and E. Garberson. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1996, pp. 208, 211, notes 5-6.
Peretti, Ferdinando. The Settecento in Venice. Exh. cat., Walpole Gallery. London, 2000, p. 32.
Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 146-149, cat. no. 48.
Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 97.
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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Madonna and Child with an Adoring Figure, between 1715 and 1718, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, 38.56.
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